Comment on is there a name for when you stop preventing a problem thinking it's solved and it comes back?
5318008@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
The best existing phrase I have is, “Dropping your guard.”
It doesn’t necessarily imply anything about why you dropped your guard, and only slightly implies that the bad thing happened while your guard was down.
We could coin a new phrase here by brainstorming. I’ll start:
Fumbled the shield